Free and Safe in Cyberspace 2015 – LatAm Edition (FSC LatAm) will be hosted at during the LatinoWare 2015 conference, the largest South American free software conference, held in Iguazu, Brazil. It is a follow-up edition of the original Free and Safe in Cyberspace conference, coordinated and co-organized by the Open Media Cluster (now called Trustless Computing Association) in Brussels, Belgium on Sept 24th-25th 2015, with the support ECSEL, AENEAS and EIT Digital Privacy, Security and Trust, and the participation of Bruce Schneier, Richard Stallman, European Defense Agency, EDPS, DG Connect, and many more.

Speakers

Marcos Vinicius Mazoni

President of SERPRO. Main Brazilian IT public agency, delegated by President Roussef to develop state-surveillance-proof email systems for government officials.

Roberto Gallo

CEO and Chief Scientist at KRYPTUS, holds a PhD on Cybersecurity, Coordinating member of Cybernetics Committee at the Brazilian Defense Industry. He worked in several security projects of strategical interest on Brazilian defense industry, including the National Anti-Malware Platform.

John "Maddog" Hall

World renowned free software pioneer and evangelist. Founder of Linux International, board member of the USENIX association.

INTRO

During FSC LatAm, high-assurance IT experts, public authorities, leading companies and civil rights activists will engage in panel sessions and stand up keynotes to tackle 2 challenges for the future role of IT in society:

CHALLENGE A: Is it feasible to provide ordinary citizens access to affordable and user-friendly end-2-end IT services with constitutionally-meaningful (1) levels of user-trustworthiness, as a supplement to their every-day computing devices? If so, how?

CHALLENGE B:Provided that Challenge A can be met, can new voluntary, independent and international IT certifications – within some nations’ current legislative frameworks – provide safeguards that are sufficiently-extreme to reconcile meaningful personal privacy, effective lawful access and prevention of malevolent use? If so, what are the core paradigms?

The current EU Cyber Security Strategy calls for “EU consultations with international partners on cyber issues should be designed, coordinated and implemented to add value to existing bilateral dialogues between the EU’s Member States and third countries. The EU will place a renewed emphasis on dialogue with third countries, with a special focus on like-minded partners that share EU values”.

How can Brazil and Europe work together towards meaningful and transparent IT assurance by filling each other technological and expertise gaps and gather critical mass for legitimation and wide global adoption of new standards and certification bodies?

Programm

10:00 – Opening Arguments10:10 – Roberto Gallo10:30 – Rufo Guerreschi (video conference)10:50 – Senior Technical official of the Cyber Defence Center of the Brazilian Army.11:10 – Panel 1 – Discussions about Challenge A11:50 – John Maddog Hall12:10 – Rogério Winter12:30 – Alberto J. Azevedo12:50 – Panel 2 – Discussions about Challenge B13:30 – Jovan Golic (video conference).Abstract: In order to foster business in the area of privacy, security, and trust in digital world, we need to understand that there is no conflict between cyber security and cyber privacy and that the tradeoff between cyber privacy and lawful cyber investigation can be achieved by transparent organizational processes and trustworthy technologies, based on cryptography.13:50 – Marcos Mazoni14:00 – Closing Arguments

(1) By constitutionally-meaningful, we mean IT services that are resistant to attacks of tens of millions of euros to the life-cycle or supply-chain of a given service class, by actors with very low liability and high access to plausible deniability.